Promoting community-based bird monitoring in the tropics: Conservation, research, environmental education, capacity-building, and local incomes

Biological Conservation

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 69-73

  Şekercioĝlu, Çaĝan H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b KuzeyDoga Society   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Capacity building; Climate change; Conservation biology; Development; Ecosystem services; Education; Endangered species; Environmental awareness; Global change; Population dynamics; Tropical ecology

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; CAPACITY BUILDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; GLOBAL CHANGE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; NATURE CONSERVATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; RINGING;

COSTA RICA; ETHIOPIA;

AVES;

EID: 84858148559     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.10.024     Document Type: Review

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